Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c14.s2.t5.4

v1.c14.s2.t5.4

From one of the rooms of lower town a rectangular furnace of burnt bricks had been laid bare. The contents of the kiln were ash and fragments of terracotta crucibles. A stone mould used for casting pins and awls, a copper pin, a broken copper chisel and a hammer stone with a socket for hafting are among the other finds from the workshop and its vicinity. At both the sites the kilns do not have any vent. They appear to have been used for melting the ingots in open bowls.